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Nov 10, 20223 min read

VIKING VOYAGER: AN ICELANDIC MEMOIR

The Icelandic Roots Book Club for December 1, 2022, will feature VIKING VOYAGER: AN ICELANDIC MEMOIR with authors Sverrir Sigurdsson and...

Oct 30, 20225 min read

Local Veterans Lie in Foreign Cemeteries

By Kathy Thorlakson Each Memorial Day and Veterans Day, thoughts of how we honor our war heroes come to mind. Several years ago, the...

Oct 30, 20222 min read

Happy Birthday, Icelandic Roots!

Nine years ago, Icelandic Roots was a dream shared by a group of Western Icelanders who wanted to connect with others across North...

Oct 30, 20224 min read

What about Guðríður?

Guðríður who??? A very good day to you! The majority of the people who left Iceland for America did so because the story traveled from...

Oct 16, 20222 min read

Intergenerational Heroes - The Volunteer Team at Icelandic Roots

Guest Article by Arden Jackson CVO (Chief Vinarterta Officer) These pioneers work for the world they will leave behind. They are the...

Oct 14, 20223 min read

How do you Unlock the Stories of Your Emigrating Family Members?

By Beth Finnson Samtal Hour on September 26, 2022, was so interesting...as usual. Judy Dickson and Dave Jonasson co-hosted. They posed...

Oct 8, 20223 min read

Leave A Legacy by Preserving Your Family Stories

Preserving your family history and leaving a legacy for future generations is important! Icelandic Roots is making it easy for people of...

Sep 19, 202215 min read

A Roots Road Trip

When most people visit Iceland they head to Reykjavik and take day trips to the Golden Circle and the South Coast as far as...

Sep 18, 20223 min read

IR Genealogist Cathy Josephson Featured in Morgunblaðið

Article by Steinþór Guðbjartsson Cathy Ann Josephson, genealogist living at Refsstaður 2, Vopnafjörður is always ready to assist without...

Sep 18, 20223 min read

In Valhalla’s Shadows-October Book Club Selection

-The October Icelandic Roots Book Club Gathering Features the Novelist, Poet, Teacher, Journalist, W.D. Valgardson By Heather Goodman...

Sep 4, 20222 min read

Icelandic Roots Fall Writing Seminars

Earlier this year, Icelandic Roots members were asked during an online writing seminar what topic they would like to see covered in...

Sep 4, 20223 min read

2022 IR Fitness Challenge Completed

The Icelandic Roots Fitness Challenge 2022 officially ended on August 6th. Altogether there were 14 teams ranging from 2 to 10 people and...

Sep 4, 20227 min read

An Emigrant Woman: Sigriður Bjarnadottir (1862-1946)

Sigriður Bjarnadóttir (I334690) entered this world on the 7th of March 1862. A daughter to Bjarni Jónsson (1828–1887) and Bóthildur...

Sep 4, 20222 min read

"Going Home" With The Snorri Plus Program

-By Beth Finnson How much do you know about the Snorri Plus program? This was the topic for Samtal Hour on Monday, August 29, 2022. Judy...

Aug 20, 20221 min read

Write Your Family Story

Coming fall 2022 - Icelandic Roots Members Only Writing Seminars We believe your life story is important and deserves to be written down...

Aug 20, 20222 min read

Finding Point Roberts, Washington, U.S.A.

Point Roberts is a geo-political oddity. The western United States-Canadian border follows the 49th parallel because of the Oregon Treaty...

Aug 20, 20223 min read

Snorri 2022 Homestay a Priceless Memory

By Karrah Parke My experience in Iceland as part of the Snorri Program 2022 was largely defined by the truly extraordinary people I had...

Aug 12, 20222 min read

Menningarnótt 2022

Reykjavík’s anniversary has been celebrated on August 18th since 1786 when the Danish King lifted the Trade Monopoly on Iceland and...

Jul 31, 20222 min read

Connecting Yore to Yonder

By Sam Hodge My time in Iceland is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. Not in the sense that it will cast a shadow over my soul,...

Jul 17, 20222 min read

Sailing through the Westfjords

by Judy Dickson Editor's note: You can view the first leg of this sailing voyage in the previous article in this series. Four members of...